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GORDON ELWOOD FOUNDATION

GORDON ELWOOD FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $160 to it, the largest being THE AVISTA FOUNDATION ($160). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$645k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$160
Net assets
$11M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Gordon Elwood Foundation does

Programs

  1. Direct Charitable Activities (Community Building Strategic Activities) 2024-2025 Background on these activities:Beginning in 2003 the Foundations board of directors decided to invest more than just dollars into the four target counties in Southern Oregon to support its regional Vision: Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, and Curry counties are home to successful youth and individuals, thriving families, and communities as demonstrated by. Goals in Support of CommunitiesLeverage resources to bring attention to community health and vitalization opportunities.Create opportunities for new thinking and innovative approaches to community issues.Partner with public and private funders to learn and achieve a greater impact on community and regional issues.Act as a convener to surface underlying causes of community issues and the opportunity for creative resolution. Provide capacity assistance to community agencies.Expenses to promote and carry out these goals are outside the cash grants allocated eac

    $0 spent
  2. Community and leadership development support through foundation staff, consultants, and/or volunteers to convene, coach, facilitate, train, transcribe, act as thinking partners, and leverage opportunities to positively impact youth, individuals, families, organizations, and communities in alignment with the foundations vision and goals in four counties. Staff In-Kind Charitable Contribution Value: $234,141.27.a)Regional Collaborations Jefferson e Funders Forum (JeFF) brings together public and private philanthropic leadership to share information, perspectives, and experiences, and cooperatively explore and leverage resources to positively impact communities in southern Oregon. See www.jeffersonfundersforum.org. The foundation provides in-kind staff support to coordinate and facilitate quarterly meetings and annual retreats, manage the website, and email communications to funders. Jefferson Regional Health Alliance (JRHA) is a collaboration of regional community leaders from all sector

  3. Other cash support for expenses related to organizations, other collaboratives and partnerships not listed above, individuals, and succession planning included meeting expenses with community leaders and groups of leaders; fees associated with speakers, education, technology, and research; and scholarships for selected project leaders or grantees to attend training and seminars. Additional organizations, not listed in Activities One and Two, included Pollinator Project Rogue Valley, Medford Parks and Recreation Foundation, Southern Oregon Alliance of Physicians and Partners, Kids Unlimited, Southern Oregon Education Services District, Center for Nonprofit Legal Services, Ballet Folklorico, and Southern Oregon Coast Regional Housing. Other Cash Support Value: $4,989.63.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($602k) Net assets 100 ($10M)2018 Revenue 14 ($428k) Expenses 106 ($636k) Net assets 101 ($10M)2019 Revenue 14 ($436k) Expenses 115 ($694k) Net assets 103 ($10M)2020 Revenue 10 ($308k) Expenses 120 ($724k) Net assets 97 ($9.7M)2021 Revenue 18 ($556k) Expenses 119 ($714k) Net assets 117 ($12M)2022 Revenue 32 ($1.0M) Expenses 128 ($768k) Net assets 97 ($9.7M)2023 Revenue 15 ($460k) Expenses 124 ($743k) Net assets 99 ($9.9M)2024 Revenue 18 ($565k) Expenses 109 ($655k) Net assets 102 ($10M)2025 Revenue 20 ($645k) Expenses 115 ($690k) Net assets 106 ($11M)
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Revenue (20)Expenses (115)Net assets (106)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $9.7M to $12M (+21%).

$10M
$10M
$10M
$9.7M
$12M
$9.7M
$9.9M
$10M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed101010131114141211
Joined·+0+0+3+0+3+3+0+1
No longer listed·00020322
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of GORDON ELWOOD FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

GORDON ELWOOD FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state in all.

WA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GORDON ELWOOD FOUNDATION's revenue fell 80% between 2017 and 2025.

Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−18% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds GORDON ELWOOD FOUNDATION?
GORDON ELWOOD FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $160 to it, the largest being THE AVISTA FOUNDATION ($160). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GORDON ELWOOD FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $160 in grants to GORDON ELWOOD FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of GORDON ELWOOD FOUNDATION?
THE AVISTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GORDON ELWOOD FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing